What is your favorite train movie?

La Bete Humaine (The Human Beast)

Fantastic opening scene too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6GVt8HQCmI

!.  The Train

 

2.  Dr. Zhivago

 

3.  From Russia With Love

 

4.  Von Ryan's Express

 

5.  White Christmas

1. North By Northwest

 

2. Breakheart Pass

 

3. Mr. Bean's Holiday  (ok..I am being a bit silly with that)

North by Northwest & Von Ryans Express!

Unstoppable

Danger Lights

The Train

and I can't believe no one has mentioned "The Taking Of Pelham 123". Both versions are fun to watch IMHO.

Runaway Train and Silver Streak

Unstoppable.  

Sinister Journey

I like how you classified these. I'd add Best historical dramatization -- "The Train"

1. The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3  ORGINAL ONLY

2. Silver Streak

4. Emporer of the North

5. The Train

6. Von Ryan's Express

 

The Train with Burt Lancaster

Broadway Limited (ca before WWII). Terrible movie but great shots of PRR equipment.

Not necessarily a train movie, but you've got to mention.....................

 

"Throw Momma from the Train"

Lionelvilleestination:adventure!

(just kidding)

 

I guess it would have to be Silver Streak.

1.  Murder on the Orient Express

2.  Von Ryan's Express (read the book first)

i am going to craft a note of my selections and just paste it in every two years when this subject reappears.

 

or not

Emperor of the North - no contest

Lionel-The Movie

 

Joe McDoaks

 

Richie

deMilles Union Pacific.

"Union Pacific" without a doubt.

 

Bob

Once Upon a Time in the West

Emperor of the North.

N by NW is a great movie, but I can't call it a train movie. For instance he takes Northwest Airlines at Midway Airport.
Family beckons so i stop.

"Riding the Rails" (1997) if a documentary can be a candidate; otherwise, "Wild Boys of the Road" (1933).

 

 

 

 

What, me worry?

"Silver Streak"---original one, made about 1935 or so. Great train shots

Unstoppable

TAKING OF THE PELHAM 123 AND BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI

i had to look at my DVD shelf to remember this one...

 

 

Sullivan's Travels (1941) ...trains and a good story, too.

 

 

SP 2445 (albeit as a reversed image) opens up this film.

unlike many movies which feature passenger consists, this one is mostly freights.

Hey silverstreak richard pryer and gene wilder.Bound for glory david caroldean.Some great shots of a doubleheader freight trains.Million dollar hobo tim conway real trains and lionel trains.And not really a train movie.But daul with denis weaver there are some great shots of long freight trains with mid train helpers.And there are some movies from the 1940s to.

i always wonder if Louis Marx ever tried to get one of the brothers to endorse his product.

 

"Play Safe," yeah I know it's a cartoon, but some of the trains in this short are real. And Lionel's "The Wonderful World of Trains."

if we're including cartoons... definitely Conjunction Junction!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPoBE-E8VOc

 

kudos to whoever thought of the OR(e) hoppers.

The train, Union Pacific,  and dont laugh, I have kids Thomas the Tank Engine(english and German versions) the old version before they went to digital graphics.

The Denver and Rio Grande 1952, with Sterling Hayden and Paul "rifleman" Fix, only on VHS I can't find it on DVD. 

"Fours a Crowd" lots of 1938 pre War Lionel with Errol Flynn.

"The Professionals" 1966 with Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Jack Palance.

"The Train" 1964 Burt Lancaster.

"The Great Locomotive Chase" with Fess Parker 1956

"The Great Train Robbery" Sean Connery 1974?

and all of the a previous mentioned! Great movies..

 

 

Von Ryan's Express

my first train movie was silver streak (1976) at a drive in, I was 7 years old.

the one I really liked was the atomic train.

my favortie christmas is The Polar Express. 

One of my all-time favorite groaners is "Disaster on the Coastline." Despite using a made up railroad name, all the equipment says AMTRAK plain as day, the railroad is run by people who have no idea how CTC actually works, the "disaster" is a murder plot against the vice president's wife, and it stars William Shatner as Captain Kirk as a smooth talking money counterfeiter who doesn't actually save the day, but somehow gets portrayed as the hero. And they crash an F40PH.

I agree. I would also add "Railroad'n" with the Little Rascals. To me, there is a big difference between a train movie vs a movie with a train in it.

I wondered when someone would mention this movie.

It is the best!

 

Not to mention Veronica Lake.

 

I can't single out any one as my favorite, but at the top are:

 

Emperor of the North

The Great Locomotive Chase

Polar Express

Breakheart Pass

Sullivan's Travels

Danger Lights

 

Andy

All great choices, hard to pick any one as really better, but "The Train" is a movie that excells on every level and also has lots of footage showing real train operation and control.   Great movie.   

 

Terror By Night, one of the most fun Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies.  There is a really nice digital colorized version of this available.  Not crappy stuff like 30 years ago, but very clear, sharp color.

 

Great Locomotive Chase.   What kid from the 50's/early 60's can't love a movie with Fess parker  on an old time train.  disney, after all.

 

Silver Streak, great train stuff and never slows down.

 

Von Ryans Express, Sinatra, again lots of RR operating details, plus great scenery.

 

Emperor of the North.  Been years since I've seen this. Probably need to watch for it again.

 

Fours A Crowd, fun movie with Errol Flynn, but that is a great outdoor layout they race trains on.

 

Hard to have a bad train movie.  All those westerns based on building the RR's are fun.   North By Northwest.  I guess there is no such thing as a bad train movie.

"The Train" is a great classic, the best.  The talent to make and act this is no longer with us.